The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

by Bertrand Russell

Overview

In THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY is one of Bertrand Russell's attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the contemporary problems of late 19th and early 20th century philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013536029
Publisher:	Halcyon Press Ltd.
Publication date:	11/21/2011
Series:	Halcyon Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	294 KB

About the Author

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970) was an important British philosopher, historian, and social critic. A prominent free-trader and anti-Imperialist, Russell is considered to be one of the co-founders of analytic philosophy. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 and was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War and of nuclear weapons.